Eight months ago Jude Lucen fled his partner, his career, and a medical center in Boston following a suicide attempt. Today back Philadelphia, he feels like a complete failure. Piano is definitely his enthusiasm and his only escape. Without it, he provides nothing. Well, nothing at all except a pathetic crush for the most gorgeous man he’s ever noticed.

Faron Locklear found Philly buying fresh begin and has thrown himself into tattooing at Small Change. He’s just met Jude several times, but something about the about Invitation to the Blues red-haired guy using the haunted eyes phone calls to him. Faron is usually impressed by Jude’s skill. What he isn’t anticipating is the electric power he feels the very first time they kiss-and the way Jude’s needs in bed speak directly to his personal deepest desires.

Jude and Faron fall fast and hard, but Jude has spent a lifetime learning that he can not be what the people he loves need. So when the chance occurs to renew his career in Boston, he believes he has to select: music, or Faron? Just by taking an enormous risk-and finally thinking he’s worthy of love just as he is-can he have the opportunity for both.

Contains mature themes.